Wong Maddie, Banda Zione, Nabulime Josephine, Matunda Nira, Nkangala Edina, Silvers Rebecca
Center for Global Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 Sep 13;11:1432262. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1432262. eCollection 2024.
Not everyone across the globe has access to safe surgical care. There exist stark disparities in surgical mortality between high-income and low-and middle-income countries. Quality perioperative care across the surgical care continuum can mitigate these disparities. Nurses play a vital role in providing quality perioperative care and their competency in perioperative nursing directly impacts surgical outcomes. Across Africa, formal educational opportunities for nurses in perioperative care is not well understood.
This is an informal scoping review of the existing literature investigating the current state of perioperative nursing education across the African continent. Ten articles were included in the analysis.
Few programs exist across Africa that provide specialized training for nurses in perioperative medicine. Programs that have been formally evaluated show improved knowledge and clinical skills among nurses.
Greater research is necessary to establish a more robust evidence base in support of increasing access to perioperative nursing education to improve patient outcomes. Obstacles remain to designing, implementing, and evaluating new educational programs.
并非全球所有人都能获得安全的外科护理。高收入国家与低收入和中等收入国家在手术死亡率方面存在明显差距。手术护理全过程的高质量围手术期护理可以缩小这些差距。护士在提供高质量围手术期护理方面发挥着至关重要的作用，他们在围手术期护理方面的能力直接影响手术结果。在非洲，护士接受围手术期护理正规教育的机会情况尚不清楚。
这是一项对现有文献的非正式范围综述，调查非洲大陆围手术期护理教育的现状。分析纳入了10篇文章。
非洲很少有项目为护士提供围手术期医学的专门培训。经过正式评估的项目显示护士的知识和临床技能有所提高。
需要进行更多研究以建立更有力的证据基础，支持增加围手术期护理教育的可及性以改善患者结局。在设计、实施和评估新的教育项目方面仍然存在障碍。
